No. 956 


THE WHY AND 
HOW OF THE 





MISSIONARY 
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THE BOARD OF MISSIONS 


OFFICERS 
Right Rev. Arthurs, Gloyd,2D Ds eee Leresiaent 
Mr. John W. “Wood. ss ses eee eC retary 
Rev. Hugh L. ‘Burleson. 2) Soe Secretary 
Rev. Franklin J. Clark . . Recording Secretary 
Rev. Arthur R. Gray . Hducational Secretary 
Mr. George Gordon King .. . . Treasurer 
Mr. EH. Walter Roberts . . Assistant Treasurer 


ELECTED BY THE GENERAL CONVENTION 


Rt. Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane, D.D. Rt. Rev. Joseph M. Francis, D.D. 
Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, D.D. Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, D.D. 
Rt. Rev. C. Kinloch Nelson, D.D. Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, D.D. 
Rt. Rev. Samuel C. Edsall, D.D. Rt. Rev. Reginald H. Weller, D.D. 


Rev. Henry Anstice, D.D. Rev. William T. Manning, D.D. 
Rev. William M. Clark, D.D. Rev, Hrnest de sb. s Miels Dn D: 
Rev. Edward EH. Cobbs. Rev. Wilson R. Stearly. 

Rev. Alexander Mann, D.D. Rev. Ernest M. Stires, D.D. 
Mr. Elihu Chauncey. . Mr. Henry L. Morris. 

Mr. William F. Cochran. Mr. John S. Newbold. 

Mr. Julien T. Davies. Mr. George W. Pepper. 

Mr. William G. Low. Mr. Charles G. Saunders. 


ELECTED BY THE MISSIONARY DEPARTMENTS 


If, V. 
Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D. Rt. Rev. G. Mott Williams, D.D. 
Rev. Robert W. Plant. Very Rev. Paul Matthews. 
Mr. Burton Mansfield. wie, MNS Ike Shovel, 

IAE. VERS 
Rt, Revo Hdwin Sw ines. DD SR te RevaaNee Soro lia. elo eies 
Rev. Reese F. Alsop, D.D. Rev. Theodore Sedgwick. 
Mr. Robert C. Pruyn. Mr. A. du Pont Parker. 

TIL. VII. 


Rt. Rev. Philip.M. Rhinelander,D.D. Rt. Rev. FE. R. Millspaugh, D.D. 
Rev. James H. McIlvaine, D.D. Very Rev. Carroll M. Davis. 


Mr. George N. Reynolds. Mr. Rufus Cage. 
IW, WANE. 
Rt. Rev. Edwin G. Weed, D.D. Rt. Rev. Joseph H. Johnson, D.D. 
Rev. William T. Capers. Ven. John A. Emery. 
l2aconk, diy IBl, IDE week, Mr. J. Walcott Thompson. 


Under the terms of the Missionary Canon the President and 
Treasurer of the Board of Missions are ex-officio members with 
full privileges. All the bishops of the Church, other than those 
elected to membership, are ex-officio members of the Board but 
are not entitled to vote. 


THE WHY AND HOW OF THE 
MISSIONARY BUDGET 


I. THE MISSION It is the Church’s work to win 
NN the world to the allegiance of her 
Lord. To do that she must make the Gospel known 
everywhere. ‘To make the Message known and gather 
people into the Kingdom she must send her representa- 
tives—clergymen, physicians, deaconesses, teachers 
and nurses—wherever people are living apart from 
God or in ignorance of Him. She must help in the 
building of churches, schools and hospitals. All this 
means the giving and spending of money. Her repre- 
sentatives who give their lives to her service must be 
supported; they must be equipped with the means to 
make their life service effective. They can do their 
work successfully only as the Church regularly, year 
after year, supplies the necessary money. 


Il. THE BOARD OF MISSIONS In order that 
LAUT this wor k of 
Church Extension may be properly organized and 
conducted, the Church has, by canon, created its Board 
of Missions, consisting of a president, a treasurer, 
sixteen bishops, sixteen presbyters, and sixteen lay- 
men, chosen from different parts of the country. 
Twenty-six of the members are elected by the Gen- 
eral Convention; twenty-four by the eight Missionary 
Departments. Each chooses a bishop, a presbyter and 
a layman to represent it. This Board meets four 
times a year, in February, May, September and De- 
cember. Its Executive Committee meets every month 
except July and August. Its Council of Advice, con- 


sisting of the officers, meets weekly, or oftener if nec- 
essary. 

The Board of Missions, through its officers, is in con- 
stant communication with all parts of the field, and en- 
deavors to do three things: 

1. To keep the Church informed of the progress 
and needs of The Mission. 

2. To secure recruits. 

3. To secure and distribute the necessary funds. 


lil. THE APPROPRIATIONS The bishops, as the 
WU ] ea d ers i n th e fi el d, 
must have a definite assurance from the Board of 
Missions of the amount of money they may expect for 
their work during each missionary year—September 
lst to August 31st. In May of each year the Board 
of Missions makes its appropriations for the year be- 
ginning with the next September. That is, it notifies 
each bishop of the amount it has assigned for the 
support of workers and the extension of the work in’ 
his diocese or district. Appropriations once made by 
the Board have all the value of promissory notes. The 
offerings of the year may be insufficient to pay them, 
but the Board must make good its promises. At the 
present time the Board is making appropriations as 
follows: 

1. Ar Home—To 386 dioceses and 22 missionary 
districts, with a total staff of 1,377 workers. 

2. Axsroav—To 9 missionary districts, with a total 
staff of 315 Americans and other foreigners anu. 861 
native helpers. 

The appropriations for work at home and abroad 
during the year September 1, 1912, to August 31, 
1913, amount to $1,555,000. 


IV. APPORTIONMENT PLAN The Board of Mis- 
MOUNT sions does not di- 
vide money that has already been given. It is obliged 
to make appropriations in the expectation and hope 
that the amount it guarantees to the bishops will be 
given through it, by the congregations all over the 
country. In order that each congregation may know 
its minimum share of the support of The Mission, the 
General Convention in San Francisco in October, 1901, 
instructed the Board of Missions to divide the mis- 
sionary budget each year among the dioceses and dis- 
tricts. This is known as the Apportionment Plan. 


V. HOW THE APPOR- In order to determine the 
TIONMENT IS MADE minimum share of each di- 
HUT ocese the Boar d O f Mis- 
sions ascertains, from the diocesan journal, the average 
of the total receipts of all the congregations in the dio- 
cese for five years. ‘The dioceses are then grouped into 
classes. ‘Then the dioceses in each class are asked to 
give a certain percentage of their total receipts, the 
wealthiest dioceses giving the largest percentage. ‘The 
dioceses in each succeeding class give smaller percent- 
ages of their total receipts and so on down the list to 
the poorer dioceses whose total receipts are less than 
$50,000. They give the smallest percentage. 

The diocesan authorities are then expected to divide 
these amounts among the congregations, and the cler- 
gyman in charge of each congregation is asked to make 
known the amount suggested as the congregational of- 
fering, so that every member of every congregation in 
the country may know the minimum amount the congre- 
gation is asked to give. 


VI. WHAT THE APPOR- The apportion- 
TIONMENT IS AND IS NOT ment does _ not 
WU represent all that 
a diocese or congregation need do in order that the 
Church’s Mission may be adequately maintained. It is 
only a minimum amount—the least sum that should be 
given in order that the Board of Missions may pay the 
appropriations and avoid debt. The apportionment 
provides only for the support of missionaries, and the 
running expenses of chapels, school and hospitals. It 
makes no provision for the purchase of land, the erec- 
tion of buildings and the improvement and enlarge- 
ment of the mission plant generally. These vitally im- 
portant matters can only be provided for as the 
Church gives more than the bare apportionment. 

The apportionment is not a tax or an assessment. 
Neither is it intended to be taken as a measure of the 
giving ability of any diocese or congregation. It is 
simply an endeavor to divide fairly among all members 
of the Church an expense common to all. Many con- 
gregations are able to give more than their apportion- 
ment and take pride in doing so. 


VII. THE APPORTIONMENT The _ Apportion- 
PLAN AND “SPECIALS” ment Plan does not 
I necessarily mean 
doing away entirely with special gifts. Many con- 
gregations can and do give in addition to the appor- 
tionment further amounts for special fields or objects. 
in which for various reasons they have some particular 
interest. The Apportionment Plan does ask that the 
obligations assumed by the Board of Missions on be- 
half of the whole Church, and in accordance with the 
instructions of the General Convention, shall be first 
provided for. 


Offerings can be designated for any field to which 
the Board makes appropriations and when so desig- 
nated will apply upon the apportionment. 

“Specials” do not apply on the apportionment, since 
the Board of Missions cannot use special gifts to pay 
the appropriations, but must send them to the fields 
named by the donor, in addition to the appropriation. 

A Designated Contribution is a gift for some stated 
portion of the work to aid the Board of Missions in 
meeting its appropriation or promise. 

A Special is a gift for some stated purpose, to be 
sent over and above any appropriation by the Board 
of Missions. 


VIII. ACHIEVEMENTS UNDER 1. In 1912 
THE APPORTIONMENT PLAN the offerings 


NAA f or missions 


from congregations and individual gifts, including the 
Sunday Schools and the Woman’s Auxiliary, were 
$554,000 larger than in 1901. 

2. In 1901, 1,993 congregations, out of a total of 
6,546 in the whole Church, made missionary offerings. 
In 1912 about 5,742 out of a total of 6,952 congre- 
gations. 

In 1902, the first year of the Apportionment Plan, 
eight dioceses and ten missionary districts completed 
their apportionments. 

3. In 1912, these twelve dioceses: 


East Carolina North Carolina Virginia 

Florida Pennsylvania Western Massachusetts 
Massachusetts Rhode Island West Texas 

Montana South Carolina West Virginia 


and these twenty missionary districts: 


Africa Eastern Oregon North Texas 
Alaska Hankow Philippines 
Asheville Honolulu Shanghai 
Arizona Idaho South Dakota 
Brazil Kearney Utah 

Cuba New Mexico Western Colorado 


Eastern Oklahoma North Dakota 


gave the full amount of their apportionments, or more. 

In the other dioceses and districts many congrega- 
tions gave their parochial apportionments, though the 
diocese as a whole fell short. 

Tested by the experience of ten years, the Appor- 
tionment Plan is a thoroughgoing success. With a 
little more determined, concerted and widespread en- 
deavor, a still larger gain may be achieved in 1913. 
Leaflet No. 1109—“The Forward Movement Plan” 
—tells how to do it. | 

The cost of administering the Church’s Missionary 
work averages about eight per cent. of the amount of 
money passing through the treasury. Approximately 
three per cent. of the total expenditure for central ex- 
penses is for administrative purposes; while five per 
cent. is expended on what a business house would term 
‘““promotion.” 


| Copies of this leaflet may be obtained without cost from the Board 
of Missions, 281 kourth Avenue, New York, by asking for No. 956. 


{ Ad offerings for Missions should be sent to Mr. George Gordon King, 
Treasurer, Church Missions House, 281 Fourth Avenue, New Vork. 


THE BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE PROTESTANT 
EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA. 





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